I am currently working on an API client for Splunk which takes x-www-form-urlencoded data. I like having the request data as structs, because it feels cleaner and can then be easily marshaled to JSON. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a function to easily convert any struct to form data. My first idea was to create a function that takes any struct and then uses reflection to create the form with url.Values{}. However, that seems kinda pointless since I have to create the struct anyway and can set the parameters manually instead. Structs in this case feel useless, but I would still like to use them for clarity so it is easy to look up which fields are in every request. What are your opinions on this? Should I just forego structs altogether and just set the values, or is there another way using structs that is not needlessly complicated? submitted by /u/161ForAChange [link] [comments]